They are displayed in the center of the screen.
The Ivory Louse is using the Chrome browser on a Windows computer that’s on the same network as us. When someone else on the same network opens the Snapdrop website, they’ll appear on your screen. Until someone else joins, there’s not much we can do. You’ll be allocated a name formed by combining a randomly selected color and a type of animal. You’re represented by an icon made up of concentric circles at the bottom of the screen. Just fire up your browser and head over to the Snapdrop website. You don’t have to sign up for anything or create an account to use Snapdrop, and there’s no login process. It also encrypts the communication stream. WebRTC removes that round-trip bottleneck, shortening transmission times and increasing security. WebRTC lets processes running in browsers use peer-to-peer communication. Traditional web application architecture requires the web server to broker the communications between two browser sessions. It uses the Progressive Web Application and Web Real-Time Communications technologies.
Snapdrop runs in your browser, but the file transfers are made across your own network. It’s like being in a restaurant that has open views into the kitchen. Boasting systems that claim to be secure, Snapdrop gives you a sense of comfort. You can check out the source code or review it online. Snapdrop is an open-source project released under the GNU GPL 3 License.
It’s also an impressive example of the simplicity that a well-crafted tool or service can provide. Snapdrop is a simple solution to cross-platform file transfer. You have the option of using a USB memory stick, but that quickly becomes tedious if you’re both working on a set of files and frequently sending versions back and forth between yourselves. And email systems don’t like attachments that are binary executables or other potentially dangerous files. You have the same issue with email-it leaves your network via the internet only to be retrieved across the internet on the other computer. If the files are small enough, you can email them. Perhaps the files are sensitive and you don’t want to risk sending them to cloud storage. This will be much slower than sending them over your own network. That means transferring the files twice using the internet.
You could put the files into hosted storage in the cloud, and then log in to the storage from the other computer and download the files. And you may not have permission to make changes to the other computer. If the requirement is for a one-off movement of files, that doesn’t warrant setting up a Small Message Block (SAMBA) or Network File System (NFS) network share. Moving files to a computer with a different operating system requires a little more effort. There are many ways to transfer files from one Linux computer to another.